Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed.Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks...

Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author.Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William...

Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; CAMPHEL issue with 'B' faintly visible on 'H', about uncirculated, a few minor blemishes to the rims.An excellent medal...

Bifolium; franked.Original newspaper containing exciting news of Anson's buccaneering windfall: 'that Commodore Anson has taken eight rich Prizes, and after ravaging the Coast, departed about the middle of April for the East Indies; that he has two Ships with him...

Octavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking.The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated...

An unexplained proto-Australia: a single southern continent for the first time

Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map, 335 x 545 mm.; mounted.A very rare sixteenth century map depicting an island roughly in the position of Australia. Montanus shows for the first time on a world map a....

Watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 54 cms. mounted and framed; signed lower right.Julian Rossi Ashton (1851-1942) had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London before emigrating to Australia in 1878. He first lived in Melbourne for five years before moving...

Sheet music, 8 pp. and colour-lithograph cover.A racy tune by the dance composer Charles d'Albert (1809-1886), this rare early sheet music features a particularly appealing coloured lithograph of the clipper Lightning, a vessel...

Folio, viii pp. title and preliminaries with illustrations, followed by seventeen plates, some in colour; a fine set, unbound as issued in the original folder.Handsome album issued to commemorate BNP's first hundred years in Australia, with finely printed reproductions of original plates from...

Quarto, with eight engraved plates; bound in later period-style full calf, spine gilt with raised bands, ex libris of Saint Charles de Bourbon seminary on title;.First Dutch edition, and rare. This is the only separate appearance...

Three volumes, octavo, tinted lithographs; uncut in the original quarter purple cloth with printed labels, brown boards.Scarce official account of the first Danish circumnavigation. The Galathea made her voyage between 1845 and 1847. Forbes notes that the purpose of the mission...

Three volumes, octavo; contemporary French tortoiseshell calf, flat spines gilt in compartments with floral decoration, double labels.The two earliest works on Tahiti brought together to form a complete work: the first French account of Cook's.....

Octavo, folding map; original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine.The standard modern edition, including the captain's report on the voyage of the Pandora, printed for the first time, with introduction and notes by Basil Thomson.This edition includes the account...

Small octavo, with a frontispiece and five etched plates; contemporary half calf.First and apparently the only authorised edition of a popular account of the Bounty story. The plates, after drawings by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty, the army officer and prolific artist...

Pair of colour lithographs, 375 x 535 mm.A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns...

Small octavo, 238 pp., original printer's green cloth.Important book by Browning building on his experience as a Surgeon on board convict transports, most notably the Elphinstone which arrived in Hobart in 1836. Browning could not be accused...

Octavo, folding frontispiece map, eight plates and four leaves of parochial Launceston advertisements bound at the rear; recently rebound in buckram retaining part of the original publisher's cloth.Scarce and informative book containing much information on Aboriginal Mission to the.....

London: Smith Elder, 1898. Octavo, original blue cloth, with gold vignette on upper board; well illustrated, pages untrimmed;.An excellent copy of the first edition. A ripping yarn based on the author's experiences on board the Splendid of New Bedford, in whaling grounds off 'the Solanders, Vau Vau, South Pacific...